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wad noun [ wɒd ]

• a mass or lump of a soft material, used for padding, stuffing, or wiping.
• "a wad of lint-free rag"
Similar: lump, mass, chunk, hunk, wedge, ball, clump, block, pat, brick, cube, bar, cake, slab, nugget, plug, pad, knob, glob, dollop, cluster, nub, bit, piece, portion, segment, gobbet, wodge, gob,
• a bundle or roll of paper or banknotes.
• "she held up a wad of greenbacks"
Similar: bundle, roll, bankroll, pile, stack, sheaf, pocketful, load,
• a bun, cake, sandwich, or other piece of food.
• "tea and wads in some church hall"

wad verb

• compress (a soft material) into a lump or mass.
• "wad the strips over and over so that they ball up"
• line or stuff with wadding.
• "the quilts are wadded with thick natural cotton"
Similar: stuff, pad, fill, pack, line, wrap, cover, encase, cushion, protect,
Origin: mid 16th century (denoting wadding): perhaps related to Dutch watten, French ouate ‘padding, cotton wool’.

shoot one's wad

• (of a man) ejaculate.



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